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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/12/2018 10:40 AM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> On 03/12/2018 10:23 AM, Jon Evans wrote:
>> I have seen multiple users who run nightlies think they have RC2 because they read "5.0.0-rc2" and stop reading after that :-)
>> Maybe we should switch the tag back to "5.0-dev" between RC releases?
>> I think all of us developers are going to look up the git hash anyway to know exactly when a given version was built, so the "rc2-dev" information isn't super necessary for me at least.
>>
>> By the way, it's probably annoying to change this because I imagine there are scripts that depend on it, but I wish the git hash didn't have a "g" in front of it, since if I just double-click that portion of the version string I have to manually remove the "g" before pasting it elsewhere to look up the hash.
> 
> I agree that the -rc2 could be confusing.  As to the "g" prefix, that is not present in the Fedora nightlies.  They report more like:
> 
> 5.0.0-rc2-dev-unknown-r12328-8fcbb64a

My bad.  I forgot that -unknown is append to the end of the version
string when building from a source archive or no git.  Every think
appended after that is done by the build script.

> 
> where the r12328 is a sequential number representing the number of commits to date and the 8fcbb64a is the short SHA of the head commit.
> 
> 	Steve
> 
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